Natalie Grant and my experience

I ran into a complete stranger who's husband knew my father the other day and somehow she mentioned how if she gets pregnant she is high risk. I knew I was asking a super personal question of "why" and she answered with having a number of losses. Come to find out a year ago she went through almost my exact loss- it was really weird how much everything was the same. She then told me about a song by Natalie Grant named "held". I think for those who have faith this is an amazing song to listen to. It's about infant loss and how God's promise is to hold you in times as hard as these...I am so beyond grateful to have been placed in that baby isle (which I wanted to avoid) with her to be able to talk face to face with someone who has dealt with this heartache. I don't think she will ever know how much her talk with me affected me but I am forever grateful to have had someone open up to a stranger like that :)

I ran into a complete stranger who's husband knew my father the other day and somehow she mentioned how if she gets pregnant she is high risk. I knew I was asking a super personal question of "why" and she answered with having a number of losses. Come to find out a year ago she went through almost my exact loss- it was really weird how much everything was the same. She then told me about a song by Natalie Grant named "held". I think for those who have faith this is an amazing song to listen to. It's about infant loss and how God's promise is to hold you in times as hard as these...I am so beyond grateful to have been placed in that baby isle (which I wanted to avoid) with her to be able to talk face to face with someone who has dealt with this heartache. I don't think she will ever know how much her talk with me affected me but I am forever grateful to have had someone open up to a stranger like that :)

That song was so important to me especially the week after the D&C. I really like that she uses the world appalling to describe the loss; she doesn't sugar coat or play the happy shiny "life is hard but God is good, tra la la" face, but instead she sings of survival even when the sacred is torn from our lives. God is good, yes, and life is damn hard sometimes, but in this deep grief it's helpful to know we're safe in our sadness. As my friend says, we can have grief without guilt.

That song was so important to me especially the week after the D&C. I really like that she uses the world appalling to describe the loss; she doesn't sugar coat or play the happy shiny "life is hard but God is good, tra la la" face, but instead she sings of survival even when the sacred is torn from our lives. God is good, yes, and life is damn hard sometimes, but in this deep grief it's helpful to know we're safe in our sadness. As my friend says, we can have grief without guilt.

Exactly, I loved how it captured so many things I have felt. I get teary eyed or cry most times I hear it but at the same time I feel comforted when I do. I'm so glad there was a song put out for mamas who loose their babies and give a sense of understanding.

Exactly, I loved how it captured so many things I have felt. I get teary eyed or cry most times I hear it but at the same time I feel comforted when I do. I'm so glad there was a song put out for mamas who loose their babies and give a sense of understanding.

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